Winning by small margin

A victory is a victory ..a Loss a Loss..
But what about winning by small margins ??
Its more of a reflection for the victor that the opposing strength was just too good to move things till the end .The game could have gone either ways.
Similarly, the loser can take pride in having ended with a good show.
But what about the Victory on the edge.
It is the ultimate heart breaking moment for both the sides. (e.g. Indo-Pak T 20 Final).

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm S. Forbes


Saluting all the victors and losers , because the ultimate winner is the spirit that guides them.

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man my son!

- Rudyard Kipling

Today's fortune: Versatility is one of your outstanding traits

Ye orkut waale bhi nahi maante.
They write same fortune for the world.I had seen a fortune in my scrap book and after some days , it was in my friend's scrap book.

If fortune were to be one and the same for all ,then the world will be a boring place to live in.

D-Days

Well it takes a long wait when finally a D-Day arrives.
1 of them came last week in the life of around 10k ppl in India.
10k because out 2.3 lakhs aspirants,only 10k are really serious and put their heart and soul for the toughest of all exams.

Still the winners of these events rock and rock too much in the minds of the whole country.

Hoping to be a winner some day :)

The Quiz

Think of quiz and my mind first goes to the days when we had a Quiz show -- BQC on AIR..and the lively Derek O'Brien as its host.
Somehow those memories got captured in the Landmark Quiz this Thursday.

The winning moments for me in the Quiz were :-

* Seeing Derek O'Brien ,in the show, in person.
* Shwetank working out 'Blooks' -- Blogs on Books or Books on Blogs ..whichever way you call it.
*One uncleji recognizing the 'Grace' connection with great grace
* Seeing a team called XX Saints comprising former lady school teachers ..making through the prelims.
* Seeing a granny leading charge of team that came 2nd.
* School Kids of 8th ,9th getting more than 20 correct /40 questions in prelims.
* Finally the deserving winners Q.E.D. and the attitude/passion/zeal shown by them towards Quizzes.


Offcourse there were few more sensational things that happened there..but that's a different story.

But the quiz was less abt. trivias and more on 'work that out' funda.

Think that I was just a small frog in Shaktinagar waters...during schools..
Kids here know the entire Rock and Pop Gurus which will put many enthusiastic buffs to rest.